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Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.

Paul Cezanne

If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Brief Define Myself Nature Soul Word
It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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Be Yourself Copy Feeling
I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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Invention Method Myself
Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Advance Canvas Myself Time
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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Art Beginning Emotion Work
Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.
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Direction Nature Perspective Plane Point Proper Treat
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Illusion Mad Myself Thinking
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.
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Discover Myself Nature Representation Reproduction Satisfaction Sun
I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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Myself Nature Represent Reproduction
Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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Change Reflection Time Understand
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Mad Thinking Time Wonder Yourself
An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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Art Harmony Nature Parallel
With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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Expression Need Painting Public Temperature

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